Re: [Emc-users] Maybe a minimally printed harmonic drive?

2021-03-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 10 March 2021 12:58:08 John Dammeyer wrote: > Hi Sam, > I found by making the wall thickness bigger along with the hole > smaller and hub larger I was able to mount the hub on the lathe and > bore both the bore and the outer part of the hub on the lathe to make > them symmetrical. Th

Re: [Emc-users] Maybe a minimally printed harmonic drive?

2021-03-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 10 March 2021 12:58:08 John Dammeyer wrote: > Hi Sam, > I found by making the wall thickness bigger along with the hole > smaller and hub larger I was able to mount the hub on the lathe and > bore both the bore and the outer part of the hub on the lathe to make > them symmetrical. Th

[Emc-users] Nice camera/probe integration

2021-03-12 Thread Ralph Stirling
This would be an awesome setup for Linuxcnc. https://www.datron.com/revolutionize-workpiece-setup/ -- Ralph ___ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users

Re: [Emc-users] Nice camera/probe integration

2021-03-12 Thread dave engvall
I rather hate to think of the cost ... beautiful stuff ... German made. It is easy to make a probe; good software to extract the real value of the probe, not so easy. Dave On 3/12/21 9:14 AM, Ralph Stirling wrote: This would be an awesome setup for Linuxcnc. https://www.datron.com/revolution

Re: [Emc-users] Nice camera/probe integration

2021-03-12 Thread Jon Elson
On 03/12/2021 11:14 AM, Ralph Stirling wrote: This would be an awesome setup for Linuxcnc. https://www.datron.com/revolutionize-workpiece-setup/ I got a "USB microscope" and built it into a tool holder and hooked it up with camview to show in a window of LinuxCNC. It worked, but I really was

Re: [Emc-users] Nice camera/probe integration

2021-03-12 Thread Ralph Stirling
I had in mind emulating the concept with Linuxcnc and low-budget cameras and probes, not forking over for the German luxury model. I see on eBay cheap part locating cameras, like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/254714062831 and relatively cheap probes like this: https://www.ebay.com/itm/33309473

Re: [Emc-users] Nice camera/probe integration

2021-03-12 Thread Bari
The problem with the cheap webcams is all the frame averaging they automatically do. I regularly see decent machine vision camera bodies on ebay for ~$100 that won't have this issue. A decent lens is about the same used. These pics were all taken with a cheap USB microscope ($50)  that was ne